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32 hours of footage in 4days - workflow
Hi All,
I have a client that needs to record an intensive training seminar, break it up into segments and create an online archive of the program. The seminar takes four days with 8+ hours of lectures and/or demonstrations per day. Production will use a single cam at the back of the room w/ audio recorded into camera via mixer (wireless from the presenter & two room mics for audience feedback/questions). That footage will be delivered to the client w/ TC burn-in. The client will send back a list of ins and outs (approximately 90) and those segments will be cut out, exported, and posted online. The project is very straight forward in theory, but the amount of footage (approx. 32 hours) makes the execution, in my mind, complex.
But then I come from a primarily commercial background - short form content generally produced in HD (RED, EX1/3, or 5D/7D). In this case, however, I've seen some footage from a similar seminar that the client deemed acceptable and it looked SD at best. I suspect it was captured on a consumer-model handy-cam. So they've made it clear that this project is all about the content of the video - not the image quality.
Does anyone have recommendations or advice on workflow for a media capture of this scope? My principle concerns center on the file size and type captured, as the budget isn't such that I can afford to spend real-time or greater transcoding and/or compressing the footage in it's entirety or at multiple stages. At this point, I've written off tape-based media and am looking at the EX1 / EX3 vs the HVX. My thought with the EX is to take it through Adobe Premiere natively to limit the job to a single compression at the final upload (I should say here that I've not tried this workflow before, just heard people say it works – I edit FCP generally). The HVX route would be to shoot the DV compression in hopes of keeping the file size as small as possible (however from the research I've done it looks like the bitrate for the XDCAM EX and the DV compression in the HVX are the same). A third route I've looked into and wondered if anyone here had tried is using some sort of handy-cam (consumer model point and shoot) that captures 'web-ready' video files – but this opens up a slew of unknowns for me, as I'm not familiar with these cameras, the codecs/compressions they capture, and how those files will act in FCP (or iMovie or Adobe Premiere, if necessary).
So – any advice or recommendations would be much appreciated (whether within the proposed solutions above or completely different – I'm not married to the routes I've described). I'll be checking back on this thread throughout the coming days to respond and continue the discussion. Thank you all who respond in advance.
My Best,
James R.
I am skeptical that a card-based system is going to help your workflow here, beacause of card-management overhead, and you being a lone gunman. A hard-drive-based recording system would make more sense to me personally, as a way of keeping everything together, but saving extra steps in post.
Also consider renting a switcher and live-switching 2 cams, main and cover/slides, which costs money up front, but saves hours of editing later.
Further, I would not think about this as if it was one 4-day documentary, but instead, as if it was 4 days worth of stand-alone, 1-hour documentary shoots. Shooting that kind of thing for so long, single-camera, what I think I would do in this situation is run DV tape for the eventual edit, but also simultaneously feed a DVD recorder, and archive the raw stuff to that. DVD's are fast to dulicate. If you feed a time code overlay to the DVD recorder, your client can then use the DVD's to make selects. The DVD's can also be ingested into your edit system using MPEG Streamclip.
I feel your pain; a project like this, on this scale, is very challenging to make presentable to an audience without some production value. Unless it is the TED lectures, single-camera from the back of the hotel ballroom sounds pretty boring. Hopefuly your content really IS good enough to withstand the limitations.
Thank you Mark,
I agree about the harddrive - I wasn't clear about this in my first post, but I was thinking that a larger drive hooked up to the EX or HVX, like a firestore or similar, would be able to catpure a day's footage at a time, download overnight and go at it again the next day (though I admit I haven't yet researched the sizes of these devices - I assumed a version existed that could handle approx 8hrs in one of the formats mentioned in my first post).
I'm really hesitant to commit to DV tape for this for a couple reasons, but the main hestation comes from the client's complaint with the previous attempt (the footage I mentioned in my first post), which was that the videographer 'missed moments' of the presentation. I assesed after a few questions that this was from tape changes. I was thinking the larger harddrive would take care of this.
But I really like the idea of feeding the video to a DVD recorder w/ TimeCode burn-in as I capture the content to a Harddrive. Could you point me to some links / recommend some gear options that I could research for this? If I could hand them the raw TC DVDs at the end of the day, that would be fantastic (as long as I can get the same TC attached to the digital files). Is there a way to generate TC from the camera and burn that onto the DVD? Or to send the same TC to both? With this workflow I could just give them the DVDs and reference there edit points in the digital files.
To touch on the switcher set up - I actually pitched the client on a 2cam or 3cam switcher set up (Wide & CU on presenter w/ a reverse angle on the audience) but they shot it down due to costs... unfortunately.
Thanks again Mark - Looking forward to your thoughts.
- James
Sorry to be the one to throw the monkey wrench of reality into your planning process, but...
From experience, my guess is the only person thinking that all 32 hours need to be recorded and THEN he (or possibly she, just less likely) will know what the important parts are, is an out-of-control egotist. Someone who has no clue as to what's involved in something like this, hence no clue as to a realistic method of achieving it and what the realistic cost is to accomplish this.
[James Richards] "but they shot it down due to costs... unfortunately."
See what I mean?
And, pray tell, how does one get a day-long continuous take any OTHER way besides going direct to a BIG ASS hard drive? And what's the back-up for that ONE drive? Bet they can't afford that either, even though failures and hiccups DO happen.
Sorry to say it, but if it were me I'd wish them good luck and run -- run like hell -- in the other direction. Too many ways for this to not go well and, with a single camera, be a surprise to them that it's not much better than their previous homemade attempts.
But that's just me and "...no matter how nasty I become, I'm always holding back."
Hey Nick,
I feel you on the cynicism. I don't know anyone in this business that hasn't had to walk away from gigs because the client had an unrealistic view of what it takes to make video happen. I've not had a lot of experience in this style of video, but I've had plenty of experience dealing with client's expectations.
What I'm looking for in posting here is some positive critical feedback - the community's suggestions for techniques and technologies that will help streamline a large content capture to a single camera. I intend to let these threads mature for a few days, do some research on the options available and go back to the client with the best solution for all parties - keeping their price points and my labor fees in mind... it's sort of a 'you get what you pay for' thing, and I'll let them know what that it (but I want my assesment to be based in some solid research - hence our current convo).
I totally agree that taking the entire seminar is excessive - but as best I can surmise, if they're breaking it up into 90 segments at an average of 6 or 7min (as little as 2, up to 15) a pop - that's approx a quarter of the footage captured. A 4:1 ratio isn't extreme.
But let me know specifics if you've captured something like this in the past. What was your workflow? Did you feel it could be achieved in a more efficient manner? What equipment worked best, etc. I'm all ears for that sort of discussion-
Did I miss the part about "6 or 7min" segments? At least that would give you a chance to change tapes / disks / cards.
When I've covered conferences I've always made sure that I was working from the same script and schedule as the presenters. It's far better to have used just 40 to 50 minutes on a 62 minute tape than it is to find out that the whole world stops at 63.5 minutes and your tape change has lost something important.
Which brings me to another key concept. I don't promise to get everything. Can't be guaranteed with a single camera and single take. It's all a matter of managing client expectations. Are you there to produce a representation of the event or a complete reproduction. I do the former and make sure that's understood beforehand.
Other thoughts that go back to your original post, if they've been happy with homemade, handheld SD, they should be delighted with well shot (and lit) SD. Hell, do it in 16 x 9 and most people will THINK it's HD. The benefit to you is that you will have MUCH less data and many fewer recording tapes / disks / cards. The money you save could also be used to rent a lock-down SD camera which you could aim at different parts of the audience from the front of the room, changing the shot during breaks throughout the day. Stuff to cut with because, to make this thing watchable, you're going to need it.
Other cut-aways can be created, with the cooperation of the presenters, before or afterwards my shooting long shot close-ups of parts of their show from alternate side views, from behind, from below looking up, etc. Just frame so the audience wouldn't be seen even if they were there.
But that's just me. And yes I AM cynical and most days would avoid this kind of thing in favor of getting a root canal.
Thank you Nick -
I do appreciate your input on this sort of a production - thank you for taking a moment to go into more detail for my sake. I hope it was clear I didn't mind the cynic's edge in the first response - it was a good hint to me that you have enough experience in this sort of work to know how such productions should play out, which is always a good point of view to read-
my best-
I first have to know if the camcorder you'll use has a monitor-output that will allow superimposition of the time code on it. Many pro-level cameras can do this, fewer semi-pro cameras can.
If you have the monitor-output with Cg time code supers ability, then any of the DVD recorders out there will work... we use the Panasonic models, some of which also contain a hard drive, and *some* of those models can record to DVD-R and internal hard drive at the same time, then fast-dub additional DVD's from the image in the hard drive.
But for your thing, a $99 tunerless DVD-recorder from WalMart should work fine. You can record in 2-hour, 4-hour or in the case of mine at home, 8-hour modes (not great looking at 8 hours, but good enough for tracking time codes... OTOH, 8-hour DVD's sometimes don't play well in all consumer DVD players, so I like to stick to 2-hour or 4-hour mode). You could also just record to DVD for the whole thing, then use streamclip to prepare the mpeg for your editing system. This gets you longer record times, however, changing and finalizing the DVD's takes longer than smashing a new tape in the transport and slapping the loading door shut. With one of the Panasonic DVCPro "shoebox" decks, we can record on larger capacity 126 minute DVCpro25 tapes, and that's what I would use if this was my gig... and I have done gigs like this a time or two. Again, if it were me, I'd do the DVD window-burn live on site, as the tapings progressed, to save the time to make dubs later.
I would also suggest to one of the folks from the conference, that it would save a lot of time and thus cash if one of them just took notes during the presentations of the parts they liked best, and wrote down the time on their wristwatch when that part started and stopped. If you set your time code to free-running time-of-day, you now can go directly to those noted-good sections for digitizing, saving a lot of post production drudgery. This only works though, if the note-taker takes the job deadly serious.
Changing the tape in our DVCPro camcorders takes about 7 seconds, from stop to re-start. I sometimes "waste" blank ends of tapes by changing them before they run out, if I can change them over a clean break like a bathroom or meal break. I maintain that tape is the cheapest thing in our whole business... so long as it doesn't come home blank or unuseable. If I can change a tape during a 5-minute stretch break, and know the next two hours are fully-covered, I will "waste" an un-used 20 minutes on that blank tape. It's not a waste. It is planning the tape change times for the best results. Don't be a slave to the capacity on the shell of the tape; you should have TONS of spare blank stock on hand and you are allowed to leave some magnetic particles unaligned:-)
The longer your tape loads are, and the more you advance-plan tape changes, the fewer chances you'll miss a good bit during the change-overs, but really, except for the Zapruder film, can't most business speech things we shoot survive a 7-second gap? Just change focal length during the tape change, then edit later, should cut together fine. The trick is to be listening closely to what is being said (not all cameramen do) and know when the speaker is done with one idea and about to go to the next. Unless they are really bad speakers, they will give you that chance if you listen for it, by talking for a few seconds worth of repetitive reinforcement of the idea they just uttered. They give you the concept twice, so just make your tape change on the second time they say it, and you really haven't msised any appreciable content.
Now comes the editorial comment.
What I don't think your client realizes, and the previous post touched upon this, is that not every second of their speaker's presentation is pure gold, and nobody is going to want to passively sit thru more than a handful of minutes of anything unless it is entertaining.
They think they are economizing by having you tape the big lecture at the hotel, which was going on already anyway. This is common thinking to bean-counters but really, from an instructional design aspect, from a writer or teachers' aspect, from the aspect of the poor SOB who eventually will be commanded to watch this stuff, if they wanted to do the job RIGHT, and get real value for their training dollar, they would instead forget the hotel group presentation, and instead, do a separate, purpose-driven version in an intimate studio setup just for the web audience. It might even need to be (GASP!) SCRIPTED!
The group presentation is a very different dynamic from a one-on-one training. You can shorten things up, collapse the structure quite a bit in one-to-one studio versions of a group presentation. You have the opportunity to pare things down to their core, and sequence the material so each little chunk is truly self-standing, and not an incomplete cliffhanger that you must then scramble to find the next part of, just to complete a thought.
I know what you're thinking. At least, I know what they usually say to me when I propose this very thing.
"But, our guy/gal is used to presenting to groups this way; the whole presentation is structured and locked in stone from doing it so often."
That still doesn't mean it makes good training television.
The early movie makers plunked down a camera in the third row center aisle of a theater, and let it roll, untouched, on a wide shot, as the actors performed a play. It was a recording of a play, but it wasn't until they caught on to the idea of changing focal lengths, changing camera positions, and editing, that recording a stage play turned into making an effective MOVIE.
So it is with making training films.
I find recording straight to DVD is a great way to do this. Realistically speaking, if you recorded to 2 or 4 hour DVDs, the quality would be fine for you to use, too. Client delivers a list of I and O points and a disc name, you have the VOB files on your HDD, open a VOB in MPEG Streamclip, export to DV. Using the Batch function will get it done even faster.
Daisy chain two DVD recorders so there's no possibility of a foul up. As for the TC, almost all DVD players have a little display on them that shows elapsed time.
I love DVD recorders so much, I got the little Sony one so I can hook it up to the camera on the spot, record, finalise and hand over the disc.
Just make sure he's OK with not having burned in TC if you decide to do it this way.
If they think the end product is only so-so (because of the live nature of the presentation) you may be able to talk them into using the presentations recorded as a jumping off point for some purpose made material.
Thank you Mark - some really great notes here. I've stepped away from my desk for dinner and some family time, so I'm working my way through the replies (I was happy to see so many), but at the moment I'm still planning on shooting the EX1 or EX3 - which could fall into the semi-pro gamut easily enough. I'll check to see if they have the TC function you mentioned.
I also think there's a nice note to your studio shoot idea. It's probably a long shot, but there's a fair argument that sorting through all the raw footage would take as much if not considerably more time than shooting a scripted lecture in a controled environment.
Thank you for your time today -
Adobe OnLocation might be your friend here. (It's a part of the PPro bundle.)
You get a scope too! Bonus!
Seriously - record to a file - you don't want to have to capture the recordings over again.
Either that or hire a TriCaster - which will also record to a file and gives you scopes and a few other niceties in the bargain.
Drives are your friends...
I really like Mark's ideas. Tape is cheap and reliable (and stressless!) as a backup. I re-read your post and it looks like all you need to ultimately do is chop out segments and get them online* - no editing, no inserting of slides after the fact, etc. Here's what I'd do:
16x9 DVcam camera running iso tape backup, split audio presenter ch1, audience ch 2 (3 hour tapes are your friend, if you run a 2hr session and the next is 2 hours you start fresh on a 2nd tape and not think you are going to switch midway; that's about 5-6 per day) this is simply backup.
Balanced audio feeds camera directly from mixer.
Run video monitor out of cam w/TC burn to DA to 2 DVD recorders (1 is backup) in 4 hr mode. Run RCA audio out to DA to recorders. DVDs are client reference.
Now for your actual online footage * you need to eventually export
idea 1) Firewire out of cam to FCP (or whatever) capturing in your final upload format. Since you are not editing, just capturing, save as final desired output. Your TC will be identical & files will be way smaller. If you have to recapture a certain segment from tape at least its minimal.
idea 2) pickup an old MediaPress capture board and stick it in an old MAC. You can take s-video (component if your cam has it) and capture direct to your output format like above. You'll need to feed the TC out of the cam to the MediaPress for timecode.
idea 3) I suppose you could capture straight to QTPro or iMovie, but I don't think they support timecode in this fashion.
Either way, files captured can be opened in QTPro, set in & out points, save with mono audio, done. No rendering. Upload.
This is a lot of coordination to make sure you break at pre-determined times so you don't miss anything. Take copious notes of what's on what media. You'll need to ride the audio on the mixer as no post audio will be done. NEVER loop anything, always DAs; if you daisy chain and something fails, everything behind it is lost. This is really one of those jobs where you should have a backup camera and mics.
I personally LOVE these challenging jobs! If you layout to the client how complex it really is, they'll justify the budget. If they shortchange the gear list too much, put a clause in your contract that they rejected it and you are not liable for lost material and you still get paid. I'd put an overhead line item too with a guestimate of what'll need to be re-captured for whatever reason. Then give them a discount in the end if it all goes perfectly.
I'm going to chime in here since I spent quite a few years as the primary videographer for the National Speakers Association - as well as having shot more "conventions" than you can shake a stick at.
If you have little experience in this particular form of torture, good luck.
Observations from time in the trenches: NO presentation will EVER proceed flawlessly as the presenter intended. NO camera operator - even the most skilled and competent - can approach anywhere close to 100% quality camera work in an typical hotel ballroom environment. (if the ceiling can lighting inconsistencies don't get you - the room RF, the speaker who decides it's more PERSONAL to walk out halfway into the audience where there's NO LIGHT and hold a LONG conversation bending over a participant who's positioned right behind a team of service personnel who totally block your shot of the speaker for five full minutes in the middle of the most critical content.)
I could spend HOURS telling you stories of shoot after shoot where even after 5 YEARS of experience and ALL the technical skills and equipment I needed, I STILL managed to find myself in situations where I got marginal results.
And don't get me started on the clients. They'll tell you that they'll be there to help answer questions, and to review the raw footage and make the paper edit decisions, and they'll promise you to work with the hotel AV people to secure better lighting/sound/scheduling/fixed table setup/power access/no large shot blocking centerpieces on the tables/ AD NAUSEUM. But you'll STILL face problems in ALL of theses areas and more. And it will be TOTALLY up to you to notice and react to these in order to TRY and get good quality audio and video.
Look, seminar shooting (which is essentially what you're doing) is reasonably specialized work.
My simple advice is thus:
ALWAYS have a totally dependable tape based camera - digital or analog - shoot the master shot. (My fave was a DSR-series DVCAM camera since you had the option to use 180 min tapes. NOBODY can hold their bladder longer than that and speak without needing a break!!!)
Establish not one, not two, but THREE audio feeds to that camera. A direct wireless - a board feed - AND a backup mic placed at a ceiling speaker with a quality XLR cable run to the camera position that you can swap for either the primary or secondary if one of them fails. If you don't have two quality feeds to the camera at ALL TIMES - consider yourself in BIG trouble.
NEVER promise "final tapes before the conference is done." ALL your clients will want that. And you may very well be able to deliver that - particularly if you know EXACTLY what you're doing and have the right equipment and crew needed to deliver. - but STILL don't promise it. There are just WAY too many things that can delay a tape - and most of these things will be TOTALLY out of your control.
I could go on for pages - but it's dinner time.
Good luck.
NEVER promise "final tapes before the conference is done." ALL your clients will want that. And you may very well be able to deliver that - particularly if you know EXACTLY what you're doing and have the right equipment and crew needed to deliver. - but STILL don't promise it. There are just WAY too many things that can delay a tape - and most of these things will be TOTALLY out of your control.
Well, that's just not good business, either, unless you're getting paid in advance or on delivery. If they are grinding you on the expenses of making the thing in the first place, you don't have to be Kreskin to foresee a large chance of them stalling payment if you give away your leverage and deliver final product before getting paid.
Bill -
I think that backup audio feed from the ceiling speaker is a great idea. It's a nice heads up, too, hearing how applicable murphy's law seems to be in the corporate video / seminar world. Thank you for sharing your experience w/ this thread -
More things that came to mind on your job:
I see 2 full days of pre-production/scouting/gear list making. While some you could chalk up as education, it'll take time to coordinate. Plus you'll want to do a dry run in your office to finalize workflow.
This is easily a 4 hour setup even when you are familiar with what you need to do. (The first day tends to be 16-20 hours)
Can you leave the gear in the room each night or do you have to move it to a secure area or completely tear down? More setup each day. Your budget may not allow for an assistant there the whole time, but maybe get one at that start and end of each day.
[Bill Davis] "the speaker who decides it's more PERSONAL to walk out halfway into the audience where there's NO LIGHT and hold a LONG conversation"
Or (personal experience here) you're the handheld guy at the front of the room when the magician performing (???) decides to find the one spot on the stage where he's lit from his neck to his knees only and stay there as though his shoes were nailed to the floor, and the director is howling in the comms to get the guy to move.
Short of getting up there and moving him physically, which I was not about to do, nothing would have worked.
Oh, ok, this is turning into a hotel venue horror story swap meet
:-) Training session for new court judges, the panel is at a long table with mics set for both the house PA and feeding my cameras. One of the judges taps on the mics near him, hears that only one of them is coming thru the speakers, and decides my direct-to-camera mic is unnecessary, so he puts it under the table.
Not having an MC or assistant is a common problem source. You pass a wireless mic into the audience, and every person who handles it decides they have to fumble with the power or mute switches on it. Then they either stick it down their throats to talk, or they plant it in their crotch while they remain seated, so you can't hear or see them. Better, the times when half the guys in the audience won't wait for the mic to pass to them, they will just try to talk without it. There is only one position for switches on wireless stick mics: permanently welded into the "on" position, and taped over, and glued to a stand that itself is super-glued to the height adjustment. And nobody in the seats is allowed to talk until the mic-holding person comes over to them, or they walk up to the pre-lit mic stand. :-)
"Training session for new court judges, the panel is at a long table with mics set for both the house PA and feeding my cameras. One of the judges taps on the mics near him, hears that only one of them is coming thru the speakers, and decides my direct-to-camera mic is unnecessary, so he puts it under the table."
Perhaps because I'm old enough that I can get away with it (or I just don't care what they think of me), I have yelled out from the camera position: "PLEASE DON'T MOVE THE MICROPHONES!" I don't care if they are the king of the world, it isn't THEIR job description to position the equipment.


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A deeply sad event in our family's life
One week ago, all our children were here to visit their father Don Jonas Sr. who was dying of lung cancer. He had hung on for over 7 months after the cancer was discovered, he had fought a good fight, but the struggle had worn him out. He could no longer respond easily to his visitors, including Don's only sister Anne and husband Dennis from Kansas City, but let us know he knew we were there.
Don and I were married for nearly 34 years. We had a peaceful divorce and he remained a friend. After my marriage to Joe, he was a frequent visitor in our home for whenever we hosted a family event, he was included, either for birthdays, holidays or other events when our children would be in town.
On Wednesday morning, he quietly went home to his eternal rest. The family came again from Kansas City, Yale Oklahoma and other parts to say good bye. The funeral was Saturday at 6:00 PM. A light meal was served for the many travelers. His ashes will be interred in the family plot in Pittsburg Kansas in the near future.
This yellow rose is a photograph of one of the many yellow roses that were in an arrangement from his children, Don Jonas Jr, Philip Vincent Jonas and Angela Viktoria Hart.
He was a good and gentle man who touched the lives of all who knew him. He will be sorely missed.
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Pipeline, Issue #434
It was, indeed, a pretty good week for comics. I spent more at the comics shop last Wednesday than I had in the previous two weeks combined, and more than I had in close to a month. ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN. I LUV HALLOWEEN. DEFENDERS. JLA CLASSIFIED. And even a TOMB RAIDER one shot that's five years late. That's barely half the list, but it all added up impressively at the end of the day.
With a bevy of good reads out last week, it makes perfect sense, then, that the most exciting book I wound up reading is a reprint of a 35 year old story that's been sitting on my shelves for a few months already. Thankfully, this column is about the stuff I want to read, and not necessarily the stuff that's assigned to me, forced onto me, or au courant. That's why we're taking a break from all those superhero books and indie darlings to talk about Asterix. Specifically, ASTERIX IN BELGIUM.
That's right — I'm all about the magic potion-toting Gaul this week, and his big, dumb, but well-meaning friend, Obelix. As the book's introduction tells us, Asterix is a cunning little man with a magic potion that allows him to take on the world in battle, if need be. He's accompanied by Obelisk, the muscle of the operation with a heart of gold and a too-cute-for-words pet dog, Dogmatix. This time around, the two represent their isolated village (surrounded by Romans) in a competition against the notoriously blood thirsty and effective Belgians to the west. The two battle to be recognized by the encroaching Julius Caesar as the bravest people in all the land. Of course, hilarity ensues.
Albert Uderzo's art is glorious to behold. There's so much going on in each page that it's a pleasure to slow down to see it all. Establishing shots are drawn with an eye for detail and background gags. Characters are well animated, with a clean and consistent look to them. The storytelling is straightforward. The ASTERIX style is not like anything you'll see in America today. Imagine an American comic with eight panels and more per page across four tiers, with most panels including all of its characters in full body poses. Body language is important to Uderzo. He doesn't leave it to chance that just the face will tell the story. He adds in gestures, posture, and environment to sell the whole thing.
There's also a hint of Carl Barks' work in Uderzo's work, but that's likely a generational thing. Both artists were prolific in the 50s and 60s. It's an odd little thing, but the women of Belgium are drawn in a slightly more realistic style than the usual madmen and cavorting warriors of Gaul and its surroundings. This reminds me a bit of how humanistic Barks would draw dogs appearing in lieu of humans in a world populated by Ducks. Barks also slipped in a story or two with human beings in it, but those are the exceptions.
It goes beyond that, of course. While ASTERIX is not an anthropomorphic series, the two share plenty in comic, including adventure, humor, and a strong grid approach to storytelling. Barks was not Kirby, nor did he ever try to emulate him in the latter portion of his career. Uderzo began drawing ASTERIX around the time of Kirby's ascension at Marvel Comics, but never emulated it. There are no borders being broken, forced perspective shots, or crazily trippy panels. Uderzo comes from a different school of cartooning altogether. This is one based on straight-ahead storytelling. While some impressive splashes present themselves — most notably a painted page at the end of the story — Uderzo's art is about character and animation, not bombast and spectacle. He's a tireless artist, with no shortcuts obvious to the trained eye.
This collection of the series has been re-colored, but I don't have the originals to compare this version to. It looks all so very clean, yet still like it was painted color art originally, and not just slick computerized coloring. If this was done on a computer, then it was done quickly and on the cheap. There are a number of tiny white uncolored areas, as well as colors poking outside of the lines. While there are some isolated exceptions, this is not a book that looks like it's reprinted from source material 25 years old. It looks like freshly scanned material was used. There's no blurring of the ink lines, not grainy appearance to the colors. I've flipped through a couple other books in the series that don't look nearly this good. They barely look recolored, as a matter of fact. This one feels much more modern than it really is.
As much as I enjoy the cartooning, it's the writing and the word play from Rene Goscinny that made me laugh out loud the most. The closest comparison I can make to this book would be Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones' GROO THE WANDERER. That is another long-lived series of funny stories about an unlikely warrior's adventures and his strength in battle. Asterix's pal, Obelisk, even has a pet dog a la Groo's Rufferto.
With ASTERIX IN BELGIUM, Goscinny provides novel uses and origins for such things as Belgian lace and fish and chips. This series pays closer attention to its time period and makes some attempt to use its period setting (50 BC) to make jokes at the expense of historical accuracy. Caesar, himself, appears in this book, stuffing a couple of famous quotes into the story along the way. At the beginning of the book, in fact, the author apologies to "George Gordon, Mr. Wm. Shakespeare, Mr. John Milton, and Pieter Brueghel the Elder." A couple of characters make cameos in this book that I don't quite get, but I'm sure they're creations of one of those creators listed, too. Wikipedia indicates one of them is a Tin Tin reference, but I've not read that series just yet, either.
Word play pervades everything in this book, most notably the naming conventions. Asterix and Obelix are the heroes. (Think "asterisk" and "obelisk.") But the chief of their village is Chief Vitalstatistix. The minstrel character is Cacofonix. The long-winded senator in Rome is named Monotonous. Sure, these are hardly examples of restraint and subtlety, but they blend in together with the rest of the book very well.
Sadly, this was the last volume Goscinny would write before his death in 1977. Uderzo has continued the series on his own, although there are many who think the series is missing something without its original muse. I can't judge that right now, but even if it is true, that still leaves me with another 23 volumes of Goscinny-penned reading to enjoy.
This isn't to say the book is perfect. There are some serious production difficulties in the book. A few pages appear to be printed slightly off register, resulting in fuzzy lines and coloring that doesn't quite stay inside the lines. The coloring looks like it was redone from original painted linework, where some of the strokes fall outside the lines. That has to account for some of it. I caught a couple of typos in the script, but when I think back to all the ones that were intentional, I have to wonder if I just misread it. There's a line of dialogue that goes, "It's plane infuriating… I shall never be in concorde… " That use of "plane" is purposeful. I'm not so sure about the others, though.
The computer font chosen for the book always includes the lower-case "I" character in the midst of the all-caps font. This is definitely a creative choice, and one likely inspired by the original French text. I just think it gets annoying after awhile, particularly in the midst of the uninspired bold-faced screams and block lettering. I have one copy of an older reprint of an ASTERIX book in which the lettering was done by hand; that one didn't use any fancy tricks with the letters like that, though. These are relatively minor nits to pick. The books are being produced with a mass audience in mind, keeping the price point low and churning out volume after volume. If this were a $20 hardcover, I might be miffed. For a $10 softcover, I can deal with it.
Orion Books is responsible for the reprint series, promising that the books have been "re-inked, re-coloured, and re-designed." Plus, they're now reprinted in their correct order. The story is 44 pages long and, like I said a moment ago, is only ten dollars.
(Late addition: There's a wonderful website of annotations for the series, which explains many of the points I had questions about and even referenced in this review. Check it out for lots of cultural explanations, including the appearance of the Manneken Pis. I can't believe I missed that.)
There's something else about ASTERIX IN BELGIUM that I need to mention. My last name, De Blieck, is of Belgian heritage. People tend to guess it's Dutch, but it's not. My mother's side of the family is Dutch, but Dad's parents came over on a boat from Belgium at the beginning of last century. Belgium is a small country. In this part of the country (northeast), you can find large settlements of Irish, Italian, and German people from that time period, but you don't find many Belgian descendants hanging around. There is no "Little Brussels" section of New York City or Paterson. It's almost a joke. I can only imagine how anyone whose grandparents came from Luxembourg must feel.
Being named "Augie" meant that you didn't see personalized mugs and bicycle license plates and all the rest of those tchachkes with your name on them showing up ever. Imagine being an "Augie" who comes from a Belgian bloodline. Wait for the laughter to subside and move on with your life. You don't see little Belgian flags on the back bumpers of cars, nor hanging off the rear view mirrors. Belgians are the forgotten European minority.
So while my family takes some small measure of pride in their Belgian heritage, it's not something that defines us strongly nor informs our every waking moment. We're from a country that most people associate with Belgian Waffles, or maybe a microbrew or two. They don't realize that French Fries come from Belgium, too, and I need to eat at Wendys at least once a week to satisfy my national heritage. While we'd all like to visit the country at some point before we die, it's mostly used as a running gag in the family.
Finding a book like ASTERIX IN BELGIUM, then, is a real treat. The whole idea of a book about some Frenchman taking on a tribe of Belgians to prove who is the mightiest of them all is a topic for some mirth. As long as you have a sense of humor about these things, you'll find a lot to laugh about in this book. It's not that Belgium is the butt of all our jokes in my family, but it is something you learn not to take too seriously. To see our motherland represented as the bravest savages in Europe is a step up from the usual image of beer-toting unknowns best remembered for statuary of a urinating little boy.
Lots of laughs I got out of the book were in taking panels out of context and using the quotes about Belgians around my family. That's why I've scanned in a few of those panels to decorate this review. Don't worry – you don't need to have grandparents from middle Europe to enjoy the book, though. It does add a level to it, though.
In other news: The thirty-third new ASTERIX album was recently announced in Belgium. It's due out next week. If you can't keep track of time, there is a countdown clock on the front page of the Asterix home page. If you're in Europe and worried about where you're going to get a copy, don't sweat too hard. They've printed up something like eight million copies of the book already. This is the comic book equivalent of a new Harry Potter novel.
I'm sure we'll see the book in English before too long, thanks to Orion.
- I mentioned last week that the new TOP TEN graphic novel was constructed like a four issue mini-series, leading me to believe that the author's original intent was for this to appear as another four issue mini-series. The book's editor, Scott Dunbier, wrote in this week to correct that assumption. Alan Moore always intended the story to be told as a one part graphic novel, and it was his choice to structure it in four parts.
- One of my criticisms of LOCAL #1 reviewed here last month, was that the location wasn't a big character in the story. Mine was not the only criticism of that nature, as it turns out. Brian Wood explained his thinking on his blog recently, and it's something that makes perfectly legitimate sense to me:
I really don't want LOCAL to be an alienating experience for those poeple who don't live in the cities featured in the stories. I don't want in-jokes or references that would fly over the heads of non-locals. The stories have to be universal, easily understood planet-wide, and the bonus to readers who DO happen to live in these cities will be what I casually refer to as the "oh, [expletive deleted b Augie]!" factor: Oh, shit! Look, she's working at Treehouse/Oarfolkjokeopus Records! (Local #2, Minneapolis) I think a degree of detail like that adds a real sense of authenticity to a story. And on an even more practical tip, I know many of these cities, some more than others, but I am not THAT well traveled that I can write travelogue-style books dedicated to each of them (although I wish I was).
Next week: Pipeline Previews returns. We're looking at December's books already. Doesn't time fly?
Various and Sundry's schedule is a little iffy right now, owing to a hack attack over the weekend. It'll return before long, but I don't know exactly when at this point.
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With 92-degree heat pushing up electrical demand, officials from Kentucky school districts met in Lexington Wednesday afternoon to start working on ways to help their schools cut energy costs.
The session opened three days of orientation and training for 35 newly hired school energy managers who will be charged with helping up to 130 Kentucky public school districts use energy more efficiently, and incorporate energy conservation into student curriculums. The effort could reach more than 1,000 schools, officials said.
The energy managers — most of whom are starting work this week — were hired with federal economic stimulus dollars funneled through the Kentucky School Boards Association and the Kentucky Department of Energy Development and Independence.
Some of the managers will work for individual districts, but most will work with multiple districts. Officials hope school districts will continue the effort after the initial $2.5 million in federal funds runs out in two years.
John Davies, state deputy commissioner of energy development and independence, said the program will allow Kentucky to manage school energy use on a comprehensive basis for the first time.
The need is critical, Davies said. He noted that Kentucky schools paid about $183 million to transport, heat, cool and provide lighting for students in 2008, about $93 million more than in 2000. Overall, he said, the state's schools now spend about $272 per student, per year on energy needs.
The Fayette County Public Schools have hired two energy managers: Britney Thompson, a mechanical engineer who will develop ideas for more efficient energy use across the district; and Tresine Logsdon, a former Henry Clay High School science teacher who will focus on including energy in curriculums throughout the county schools.
Thompson said energy-saving efforts probably would focus on simple steps first, such as updating lighting systems or developing policies to limit the amount of time buses spend idling while loading or unloading students at schools.
"There are a lot fairly easy things we could do up front, and more things we could change as we go along," she said. "I'm sure I'll be working with school maintenance directors. The school janitors will be key ... because they really know what is going on in their schools."
Meanwhile, Logsdon said several student programs she used as sponsor of Henry Clay's Green and Healthy Schools initiatives could be used across the Fayette district to get students more involved in energy conservation.
One Henry Clay conservation effort involved installing programming to shut down school computers when they were not needed, she said.
"A big part of what students can do is raise awareness and create habit and culture change," Logsdon said.


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Hello, my friends! This week I am sharing 8 sentences from my upcoming Harlequin-E Contemporary release The Last First Date (formerly Jump Into Love).
Hugging the hideous coat even tighter, Jessica thanked God for its down-filled warmth. Tiny lacewings fluttered in her stomach, but she ignored them. This was New Year's Eve. In just a few hours this craptastic year would be over and a bright, shiny new one would start. She just needed to make it through midnight.
Detective Delicious turned stormy gray eyes in her direction and the busted zipper on the hideous coat shot to the top of Mount WhyMe. She hadn't realized the parka wouldn't close until her mission was well underway. If she'd known, she would have put on a bra at the very least.
The Last First Date
On a night where everything goes wrong, one man finds his Ms. Right.
Langley Sheppard's New Year's Eve hits a major snag when Murphy's Law throws the book at him.
His friends call him a serial dater, but this determined detective is the real deal–a man looking for the right woman. First date number forty-eight comes to a screeching halt when his date decides to lift a pack of gum from the local convenience store, but a spunky, snarky damsel in distress witnesses the confession and things start to look up.
Jessica Vickers has lost about everything—her job, her apartment, and even her fashion sense—but she hasn't surrendered her attachment to premixed margaritas and taco chips or her optimism. With just a few short hours left until the clock strikes midnight, she's looking forward to a quiet evening at home and a fresh start in a New Year. A dead car battery leaves her stranded in a convenience store parking lot with no cell phone and no jumper cables.
But things start looking up when handsome police detective Lang Sheppard offers to jump her.
Thrown together by circumstance and petty larceny, Lang and Jessica discover that on a night when everything goes wrong, all it takes is a chance at love to make everything right.
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75-year-old syrian woman sentenced to 40 lashes for "mingling". cruel and unusual anyone?
13-year-old girl beaten, stuffed in trunk and thrown in icy creek. this, after repeated attempts to flee, and after others (bus driver, etc.) reported the observed abuse to authorities.
61-year old former librarian stabbed on long island.
24-year-old des moines woman was asking for it (according to the tone of the police report, anyway)
reality bites. especially for women.
back to reality
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Three people are homeless after a fire destroyed a mobile home in Nashua late Monday night.
Firefighters responded to Rodgers Mobile Home Park at 11 Brenda Street and found the home engulfed in flames.
Officials said the fire was quickly brought under control, but the home was deemed a total loss.
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text: The da Vinci Performance Classroom is a prototype classroom design for Portland Public Schools. The classroom design serves as a study model for the school district with the intent for the school district to be able to grow and educate its residents in a sustainable way. Waiting for the final additional funding to start construction, the classroom will set an example of high environmental standards for future PPS classrooms and for other school districts. The goal is to achieve LEED Platinum certification for this building, the first public secondary education building to achieve this status. The modular classroom is based on a high performance classroom prototype developed by G. Z. "Charlie" Brown, Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon. The new classroom will use 40% 70% less energy than a regular classroom. Storm water runoff from the building will serve the adjacent stormwater garden. As a living laboratory and teaching aid, the storm water run-off is animated and expressed in the design to consider the building. The classroom uses the opportunities of the site to facilitate development of an outdoor music amphitheater and sculpture court.


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September 2017
Message from the Director General
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We did it again! I am very proud to say that all our hard work throughout the 2016-2017 school year paid off. Indeed, the Central Québec School Board (CQSB) remains one of the leading school boards in the Province. Hats off to everyone!
The education world is in constant evolution and 2017-2018 will be a pivotal year; starting with the implementation of the Government's Policy on Educational Success while preparing our first Commitment to Success Plan. Furthermore, the arrival of the new Secondary III History course and the new Secondary V Finance course are challenges that we will definitely be ready to meet as our students will be introduced to these new courses in September.
CQSB's success can be attributed to a combination of many factors. Among those is the exceptional professionalism of its staff members. Dedication, unity and cohesion are qualities that also define our School Board and that truly make a difference. CQSB employees not only work continuously to support the learning of each and every student, but they also provide them with a safe and caring learning environment wherein they can maximize their full potential. Students have always been, and will always be, at the centre of all CQSB's actions and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we will continue to strive in that direction. Our hard work and team approach directly impact the performance of our students. Incidentally, once again, our students' last June uniform ministerial examination results were simply outstanding! Great job everyone!
To all our principals, vice-principals, teachers, professionals, support staff, administrators, commissioners, parents, community volunteers and, of course, all our students - I wish you all a memorable and very successful 2017-2018 school year!
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Simone Ungaro
Born in Rome on 3 February 1971.
Diploma, London School of Economics and Political Science (1993).
Degree in Business and Economics, Università La Sapienza di Roma (1995).
From January 2008 to January 2010 he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Fondazione Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Since August 2007 he is Director general of the Fondazione Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
2006 - 2007: Responsible for technology transfer of IIT as liaison between industry and scientific network of the Institute.
2004 - 2005: Advisor to the IIT Commissioner. Responsible for the coordination of all activities related to the start-up of the Institute.
2003 - 2006: Member of the Advisory and Tributary Inspection Service of the Ministry of Economy and Finance with the title of Expert.
2002 - 2006: Advisor to the General State Account and subsequently to the Director General of the Treasury (Ministry of Economy and Finance) for the setup and management of projects in the areas of organization, e-government, and forecasting and control models of state finance.
1998 - 2002: Deloitte Consulting-Manager in charge of projects in Italy, UK, and Spain, in the areas of organization, planning, and control of leading companies in the energy, transport and telecommunication sectors and UN Agencies.
1996 - 1997: KPMG, Audit and due diligence activities within banking and energy sector.
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Brandon Bernstein, PhD
Dr. Brandon Bernstein is a musician, educator, entrepreneur and social activist. He is a published author and a TED speaker. Bernstein was a professor at USC, University of Louisville, Pasadena City College, Musicians Institute, Cypress College, and Chaffey College where he lectured undergraduate and graduate students since 2003. In 2015 Bernstein founded the social enterprise Music Lifeboat following his passion to make high quality education more accessible. Bernstein is a director of jazz for the non-profit Street Symphony, Advisory Board Member for the non-profit Harmony Project of America, and on the Education Committee for The Midnight Mission.
Kenny G
Kenny G has had one of the most eclectic and dominant careers the music business has ever seen. With a career spanning over 40 years, he has built an unshakeable brand, has broken records for his circular breathing technique and is a champion golfer. Kenny is committed to being of service and an ambassador for Take Me To The River. We are grateful to have him in the capacity of a treasured advisor.
Eli Goldsmith
Eli Goldsmith is the Director of Annual Giving at Harvard-Westlake School, the largest annual giving program in the country among non-boarding independent schools. He previously studied at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Princeton University.
Heather Goodman
Heather is Chief Operating Officer and President of True Capital and brings over 20 years of financial service experience to her role. She excels at analyzing business challenges and building infrastructures which has allowed True Capital to create a scalable platform. In addition, she dedicates her time to the community through her work with nonprofit organizations. Heather was born and raised in the Bay Area and earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Jerry Harrison
Jerry Harrison was a member of the Talking Heads from 1977 through their dissolution in 1995. He was also a member of the Modern Lovers from 1971-1974. Harrison has recorded three solo records and been a successful music producer since 1981. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has won MTV's video of the year, multiple Surround Awards and received Grammy nominations for both music production and album design. He has produced such artists as Violent Femmes, The Von Bondies, Live, Crash Test Dummies, The Verve Pipe, No Doubt Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and many more. He taught design at Harvard University, received an A.B in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College, and studied architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
Adam LaRue
A 16-year veteran of the music industry, Adam LaRue coordinated the global album launches of Plain White T's, At The Drive-In, Sugarcult, the Punk Goes… series and many others while at the prominent label, Fearless Records. While at IndieClick Media Group, Adam consulted major and indie record labels with development and online advertising strategy for artists such as Eminem, Blink 182, LMFAO, and Neon Trees; major music festivals The Vans Warped Tour and Rockstar Mayhem Fest; book publishers such as Random House, and Harper Collins; and popular consumer brands Griffin Technology, SanDisk, and eMusic.
George Macias
George Macias is a senior leader, advisor and entrepreneur with over twenty-five years' experience in various roles in sales, marketing, operations and strategy in multiple industries. Mr. Macias currently serves as Advisor and Interim COO of MediaRebel,where he is responsible for product strategy, sales and marketing and advises MediaRebel's founders.
Previous positions include COO at Vanacore Music, CEO and founder of Chessbox Media, EVP of Sales and Marketing for APM Music. Mr. Macias has held multiple roles within the EMI Music Publishing family of companies, serving as the SVP of Client Development, where he oversaw sales and licensing for North America, managed the company's B2B marketing efforts and helped to develop a digital platform to deliver content for professional users of music.
Mr. Macias received his postgraduate Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University in 2012. He also dedicates time to work with nonprofit and social enterprises to help develop overall strategy development designed to deliver incremental value for their clients and causes.
Mr. Macias is married with two children and resides in Manhattan Beach, CA
Zoe King
Zoe King is the Director of Brand Partnerships at Capitol Music Group, where she collaborates with key stakeholders across marketing, sales, A&R, product development, digital, TV & film licensing, and artist management to support priority projects, artists, and brands. She is also the co-founder of Synch This, a networking group for young professionals who work with music.
Bonnie Pietila
Bonnie Pietila is a casting director and producer best known for her work on The Simpsons, with which she has won three Emmy Awards. She has been with the series since its beginnings on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987. Pietila graduated from Gwinn High School in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1971, and is a graduate of Michigan State University.
Doug Raetz
Doug Raetz is Chief Executive Officer of True Capital and a 15-year veteran of the financial services industry. Under his leadership, True Capital has experienced phenomenal growth and expanded advisory services to all major sports with a presence around the globe. In addition to his role at True Capital, Doug mentors entrepreneurial companies on corporate strategy, financial management, capital fundraising and mergers and acquisitions. Doug grew up in New York and holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Strategic Analysis from Boston College.
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The Town of Palm Beach and its firefighters resumed labor negotiations Friday, but they will need more time at the bargaining table before agreeing on contract changes.
The town's attorney Jeffrey Mandel proposed changing sections of the collective bargaining agreement related to promotions, wages and retirement benefits for rank-and-file firefighters. Many of the changes were similar to what the town proposed prior to both sides declaring an impasse nearly a year ago.
The most significant change was updating the pension section to reflect the Town Council's recent decision to switch to a new defined benefit plan intended to improve recruitment and retention in the fire-rescue and police departments.
"When we last met we declared impasse," Mandel told fire union representatives. "We were on our way to impasse resolution when the elected officials started looking at some pension changes, and we agreed we were going to hold off and come back to the bargaining table. Basically, this reflects the direction that Town Council is going with respect to the pension plan."
Attorney Mark Floyd, who represents Local 2928 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, listed several counter-proposals. Mandel said the town needs time to discuss them and gather additional actuary analysis before responding.
Issues on the table:
* Promotions — The union wants to keep the "rule of three" that says the fire chief must consider the top three candidates on the promotional eligibility list when filling a vacancy for driver-operator. The town proposed striking the rule to allow the chief to choose any of the candidates on the list. Firefighters also want vacancies to be filled within a specific time frame, possibly 30 days or 60 days. The town had suggested eliminating the 30-day window to give the chief more flexibility.
* Wages — Both sides agreed on deleting the previous salary step plan and replacing it with salary ranges for each position. Wage and salary increases and bonuses for bargaining unit employees would be determined the same way as other town employees. As part of the agreement, firefighters would receive wage increases retroactive to fiscal year 2014-15.
* Work week — Floyd told the town that firefighters want to "re-open" the discussion on restoring Kelly Days. Kelly Days are unpaid days off every seventh shift that would reduce the work week from 56 to 48 hours. Mandel didn't discuss the item Friday but has said in the past that the town is against Kelly Days and not willing to compromise.
* Vacations — Firefighters want the ability to have six consecutive leave days on their first vacation instead of the limit of five. On their second vacation period, firefighters want to be able to take four consecutive days instead of three. "We want it to mirror what lieutenants have," Floyd said. Mandel said he'll have to discuss the proposal with the fire chief.
* Pension — Floyd said the union agrees to a 2.75 percent benefit multiplier but want it to be retroactive to May 1, 2012. He said firefighters also agree to set the retirement age at 56 with 10 or more years of credited service, but propose adding that firefighters also can retire after 30 years of service, regardless of their age. The union did not agree to the town's "sliding scale" method of determining employees' contributions to their retirement fund that ranges from 8 percent to 12 percent based on the fund's investment performance.
"Sliding scale contributions impact employees a lot more than they impact their employer," Floyd said. "You're talking about potentially a 4 percent variation in income for an employee. That's a lot harder for an employee to swallow than an employer."
Instead, firefighters proposed a "flat contribution" of 10 percent.


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Responsible for greeting patients, verifying insurance coverage and eligibility, reviewing new patient registration and entering new patient information into the computer system at an outpatient care site.
Register patients in ECW and Meditech as they sign into the clinic.
Interviews incoming patients and enters information required for record keeping such as name, address, age, person to notify in case of emergency, individual and insurance company responsible for payment of the bill into the patient's medical record and into the computer.
May explain clinic regulations such as hours of operation, payment of accounts, and schedule of charges.
Collect any co-pays that apply and check process accounts for any other collectable accounts. Post payments to accounts, print receipt.
Logging of super-bill number, patient name, and provider (see attached form).
Prepare chart for provider (new dated progress note and super-bill).
Schedules appointments for examinations by the provider staff and perform the duty of confirming appointments one business day prior to the appointment. Remind the patient of the co-pay amount they will be responsible for at the time of the visit.
Enter charges for encounter to patient's account through ITS.
Verifying Medicaid eligibility and requesting referrals from patients PCP if needed.
Verifying all new insurance.
Process incoming mail separating insurance checks, remittance advice, and other correspondence.
Scan mail to NARMC folder.
May perform routine clerical tasks such as customer service, answering phones, and filing, typing and assisting with correspondence and general bookkeeping procedures.
Have knowledge in preparing daily and monthly reports that are to be sent to North Arkansas Regional Medical Center to include balancing the cash drawer and performing the remote deposit of checks and preparing the deposit slip for the cash deposit as needed to back up the Clerical Specialist Level I.
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High school education or GED,
Emphasis in business and office occupations.
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Chinese cities explode.
For instance the population of Changsha city, capital of Hunan province increase of at least 500 thousands inhabitant each year!
With such a rapid growth integration of new comers generates some resentments.
It is difficult to know what "original" inhabitants think. In fact only 30, 40% of the population might really be from Changsha!
Many don't appreciate all these wealthy farmers who arrive in their city. Several times I have heard "they are farmers".
"Farmers" or new comers are wealthy but they are often disregard.
For instance several Chinese people told me that they never go to Starbuck as too many farmers go to these coffee place!
In Changsha when you speak to some Chinese he will most likely come from another city CHangde, Yueyang, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan...
New comers often stay in the same districts in the suburbs. It is cheaper there and it is easier to go out of the city.


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If you are not entirely satisfied with your online order, you may send it back to us for a refund or exchange within 30 days of purchase.
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Note! Starchaser, and any other dragons mentioned in this and my other OCs' pages are my own characters and anything here that appears elsewhere is purely coincidental.
Starchaser is a mostly black NightWing with midnight blue scales on his snout and under his wings. He has silver teardrop scales behind his gray-blue eyes, as he hatched under two moons.
Starchaser hatched in the NightWing city under 2 moons, giving him the ability to see the future and read minds.
When he first entered school, he was often scolded by his teachers (specifically, those that taught him how to use his mind reading and precognition) for having an active imagination and for "being too visionary". His classmates also bullied him, and it continued even when his parents got jobs inside the palace. In defending himself, he became a cunning-and often brutal-fighter. He was noted by Starfury to be exceptional in combat, and was eventually made the Queen's top assassin.
Personality and abilities
Starfury is very smart, creative, and kind within the Night Kingdom, but outside of the NightWing City, he is very mysterious. As a assassin, he has kept his name secret from others and is often known to his enemies by the name "Silencer".
Distinguishing features
Starchaser is mostly black, with bluish-black on his underscales and snout. He has blue-grey eyes and and his horns are more silver other NightWings' horns. The star-scales under his wings are arranged in patterns similar to the constellations, the most prominent formation taking the form of the Big Dipper. Having hatched under two moons, he has silver teardrop scales behind his eyes.


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She loves to bake but hasn't baked from scratch, so I decided to give her one of my recipes to try to bake on her own!
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We share with you our publications, announcements and latest advancements in dentistry. Contact us today if you have any questions or feedback – we'd love to hear from you!
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Opening Hours : Mon-Fri: 9am-5:30pm | Sat: 9am-1pm
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We share with you our publications, announcements and latest advancements in dentistry. Contact us today if you have any questions or feedback – we'd love to hear from you!
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It comes down to the complexity and length of treatment required. Depending on the difficulty of your case, the cost for teeth straightening can be as little as $3,000-$8,500.
There are many options available to straightening your teeth via orthodontics. You can opt for traditional braces, but there are many great alternatives such as clear braces, including the ever-popular Invisalign and Inman Aligner that can help you achieve the same result but faster and more comfortable. Speak to our dentist to see if these treatments suit you.
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Certainly, we pride ourselves in seeing all emergencies on the day. Please call our Emergency Patient Hotline on (03) 9593-1811 or contact us today.
As health professionals we are not legally allowed to give any treatment a warranty period. However, we stand by the quality of our treatments, so please speak with our dentists regarding your treatment and you'll be given a quality assurance within a reasonable time-frame depending on the type of treatment you're having.
We advise our patients to check with their health funds to see how much their cover is for General and Major dental treatments. Every health fund is different and their policies can change at any time. If you're not sure what you're covered for then our Patient Co-ordinator would be delighted to assist at your next appointment.
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Using SAML Single SignOn and Google Authorization Service¶
Qubole supports logging into QDS using the username and password or through Google authorization, or through SAML Single Sign-On (SSO). To use Google authorization and SSO for signing into QDS, create a ticket with Qubole Support.
You must provide some information to enable SAML SSO service on the account. See Enabling SAML Single SignOn Authorization Service for more information.
The following figure shows the QDS login page.
Enabling SAML Single SignOn Authorization Service¶
To enable SAML Single SignOn (SSO) authorization service, you must contact Qubole customer support and provide the following details:
- SAML Single SignOn endpoint
- SAML Single SignOn cert
- SAML Single SignOn fingerprint
- The users' email addresses who would be using SAML login credentials to use Qubole.
Qubole uses SAML version 2.0. Qubole's entity ID on SAML service providers such as Okta, OneLogin, and LastPass is
qubole. After using the entity ID on the SAML service provider, select api or api2 as the subdomain. After
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